I work at a University and help look after creating and deploying images in student ICT labs. We have windows XP installed on roughly 600 machines. This particular problem applies to about 90 of those machines for which a unique ICT image has been created with norton ghost.
As a part of an introductory programming course, the students use a lego tower usb device (robolab 2.9). Whenever a student plug's the device in, a "Found New Hardware" wizard appears and they must locate and install the device base on the lectures instructions. Because deepfreeze is installed, this must be done each time a student logs into the machine. My question is how can this be avoided?
I have tried long-winded solutions, like creating a before and after snapshot with symantec ai, and creating an .exe package to deploy the differences, which is executing by a vb script as part of sysprep. This didn't work, I'm guessing because of some unique identifier each machine uses to reference usb devices.
The relevant drivers are pointed to in the sysprep.inf OemPnPDriversPath and the robolab software is actually installed on the image, however, after it is syspreped and deployed, my old friend the "Found New Hardware" wizard appears.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. If you require additional information, please don't hesitate to contact me.
Hi Stigward, have you installed Windows SteadyState on the computers? Meanwhile, from your description it seems this is a general Windows XP issue regarding how to avoid the notification of USB driver installation. As this forum focuses on Windows SteadyState specific issues, this inquiry would best be posted to Windows XP forum and newsgroup:
The reason why we recommend posting appropriately is you will get the most qualified pool of respondents, and other partners who read the newsgroups regularly can either share their knowledge or learn from your interaction with us.Thank you for your understanding.
Hi Stigward, have you installed Windows SteadyState on the computers? Meanwhile, from your description it seems this is a general Windows XP issue regarding how to avoid the notification of USB driver installation. As this forum focuses on Windows SteadyState specific issues, this inquiry would best be posted to Windows XP forum and newsgroup:
The reason why we recommend posting appropriately is you will get the most qualified pool of respondents, and other partners who read the newsgroups regularly can either share their knowledge or learn from your interaction with us.Thank you for your understanding.
